Two deceased mobsters with Kansas City ties are under consideration to be removed from Nevada’s Black Book that excluded them from casinos.
The Nevada Gaming Commission will consider the matters of William Cammisano Jr. and Peter Ribaste Thursday at the end of its regularly scheduled meeting. The Commission’s practice is to remove people from the list after they’ve passed away. Cammisano died in 2023, Ribaste in 2021.
Cammisano was the son of William “Willie the Rat” Cammisano Sr., a mobster and enforcer for a Kansas City crime family. He was added to the Black Book in 1997. An Associated Press story in 1989 said the younger Cammisano was accused of killing two organized-crime figures, one with explosives and one with gunfire, to preserve his spot with the Kansas City crime family. The story said Cammisano also met with Chicago organized-crime figures concerning the Kansas City family’s share of money from the sale of four Argents casino and its share of illegal activities, such as skimming from Las Vegas casinos…